GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
H 2
HOUSE BILL 614
Committee Substitute Favorable 4/12/11
Short Title: DMA Post Public Notices of Change on Website. |
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April 5, 2011
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to require the department of health and human services to publish on its web site public notices of changes in statewide methods and standards for setting medicaid payment rates.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 108A-55(c) reads as rewritten:
"(c) The Department shall reimburse providers of services, equipment, or supplies under the Medical Assistance Program in the following amounts:
(1) The amount
approved by the Health Care Financing Administration Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services of the United States Department of Health
and Human Services, if that Administration approves an exact reimbursement
amount;
(2) The amount
determined by application of a method approved by the Health Care Financing
Administration Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the
United States Department of Health and Human Services, if that Administration
approves the method by which a reimbursement amount is determined, and not the
exact amount.
The Department shall establish the methods by which
reimbursement amounts are determined in accordance with Chapter 150B of the
General Statutes. A change in a reimbursement amount becomes effective as of
the date for which the change is approved by the Health Care Financing
Administration Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the
United States Department of Health and Human Services. For any public notice
of change required pursuant to the provisions of 42 C.F.R. § 447.205, the
Department shall, no later than seven business days after the date of
publication, publish the same notice on its Web site on the same Web page as it
publishes State Plan amendments, and the notice shall remain on the Web site
continuously for 90 days. The Department shall report to the Fiscal
Research Division of the Legislative Services Office Division, and
to the Senate Appropriations Committee on Human Resources Health
and Human Services, and the House of Representatives Appropriations
Subcommittee on Human Resources or the Joint Legislative Commission on Health
Care Oversight Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
on any change in a reimbursement amount at the same time as it sends out public
notice of this change prior to presentation to the Health Care Financing
Administration Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.